When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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